HCNC co-sponsors a series of special events commemorating the homosexual victims of the Holocaust, culminating in the world premiere of a new composition by Stefan Heucke honoring their memory.

Thursday, March 4, 2010
6:00 p.m.
Suppressed, Silenced and Shunned: The story of the Pink Triangle Prisoners in Hitler's Reich
Public lecture presented by Dr. Susan Eischeid
GLBT Historical Society
657 Mission Street #300
San Francisco

Saturday, March 6, 2010
8:00 p.m.
World Premiere of Stefan Heucke's new composition
Susan Eischeid, oboe soloist
Old First Concerts Artist's Series
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento Street
San Francisco, CA 94109

Tickets are $17.00 for general admission, $14.00 for seniors/students, Chldren 12 and under are free

Written by noted German composer Stefan Heucke, who will also attend the premiere, the work will feature Holocaust scholar and professional oboist Susan Eischeid, pianist Maila Gutierrez-Springfield, and the select men’s chorus Clerestory conducted by Paul Andrew Neal. Canadian poet and author Gina Roitman, herself a child of survivors, will read a new poem written in memory of the Pink Triangle prisoners.

The program will additionally feature the Bridge Players performing a string quartet by Czech composer Viktor Ullmann, who died in the Nazi camp of Theresienstadt, and Clerestory performing other works for men’s chorus from the Holocaust period plus complimentary programming. The concert will be dedicated to the memory of those thousands of homosexual victims murdered by the Nazi regime and to the struggles still faced by many persons in our own society who continue to deal with issues of discrimination and prejudice, be it towards gender, sexual orientation, or simply for being different.

For more information, visit the Pink Triangle Project website.